
Ten Lectures on Field Semantics and Semantic Typology
Juergen Bohnemeyer(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 30. September 2021
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-90-04-36261-1 (ISBN)
Description
The first four lectures revolve around field semantics - research methods for studying linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions. The remaining six lectures deal with semantic typology, the crosslinguistic study of how humans communicate about the world in terms of the meaning categories of the languages they speak. Together, the lectures present one of the first comprehensive introductions to either topic. A thread pervading the lectures involves the following questions: how much do languages vary in how they represent reality? To what extent does this variation reflect cultural differences? To what extent does it influence the nonverbal thinking of the speakers?
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-36261-1 (9789004362611)
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Juergen Bohnemeyer (Ph.D., Tilburg University, 1998; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 1998-2003) currently holds the rank of Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of The grammar of time reference in Yukatek Maya (2002).